As COVID-19 has crippled the world’s movement since months, lakhs of migrant labourers have found themselves stuck in several parts of the country. With no one focusing on them in the beginning, thousands of them walked miles to reach their village, which also resulted in unwarranted law & order situation across India.

From plying buses in the early stages to initiating the demand of trains across the country, the Ashok Gehlot led Rajasthan Government has left no stone unturned to ease the transportation process of these migrant labourers. As soon as the nod of railway transportation was received, Rajasthan Government began evacuating labourers as well as students stuck in Kota, also known as the education hub of India.

The panel under the leadership of Subodh Agrawal, Additional Chief Secretary is keeping a tab on the movement and is constantly in touch with other states to ensure ease of travel for stranded labourers.

Till now, nearly 96,000 migrant labourers have been transported to several home states and daily trains are deployed for travel. The transportation of labourers is being taken care by Ashok Gehlot led Rajasthan Government along with the facilities of meals, masks, sanitizers.

The travel is being done under strict vigil and keeping social distancing in mind and all the passengers are being checked by medical teams on particular railway stations.

Notably, 8,12,423 labourers registered to travel and reach their home states as soon as the government got the nod of transportation. On the other hand, 10,64,417 labourers registered to reach Rajasthan from across India.

“In the coming days, lakhs of labourers from Rajasthan will be sent to their home states and those from Rajasthan in other states, will be brought back here. We hope that things go hassle-free and as we planned. After a very unfortunate incident in Aurangabad, we have taken strict measures to ensure the safety of these stranded labourers,” added Subodh Agrawal, Additional Chief Secretary and head of the committee looking after transportation of labourers and students.

Government of Rajasthan has started registration of stranded people to be migrated (Inward/Outward) to and from Rajasthan via several processes. The registration is taking place through eMitra where such people have submitted their migration requests.

Any stranded citizen can register on eMitra portal by providing all the relevant details along with documents or can also register using +181/18001806127. The next step in the process would be e-Pass/e-NOC recommendation by the DM. As soon as the request has been submitted, it shows to District Magistrate systemically on RajSSO-E-Mitra portal to initiate the process for issuance of e-NOC(Inward)/e-Pass (Outward) to migrants.